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For more than a decade, the United States and China have been engaged in a low‐​profile, high‐​technology trade war that has been conducted in the name of protecting critical economic and national security infrastructure from cyber malfeasance. But the trade restrictions and subsidies suggest that the objectives of both governments have less to do with cybersecurity than they do with industrial policy and protectionism.

An audio version of Policy Analysis #815, “Cybersecurity or Protectionism? Defusing the Most Volatile Issue in the U.S.–China Relationship.”

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In the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States launched an international war on terrorism defined by military intervention, nation building, and efforts to reshape the politics of the Middle East. As of 2017, however, it has become clear that the American strategy has destabilized the Middle East while doing little to protect the United States from terrorism.

An audio version of Policy Analysis #814, “Step Back: Lessons for U.S. Foreign Policy from the Failed War on Terror.”

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